Milestone: Bundy, Sequim High senior, receives PLU President’s Scholarship

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Emily Bundy, a Sequim High School senior, was recently awarded a prestigious Pacific Lutheran University President’s Scholarship worth $26,000 a year — along with the opportunity to earn more.

The President’s Scholarship is one of the top academic and leadership scholarships offered by PLU. For the 2019-20 academic year, more than 500 incoming first-year students applied who met the high eligibility standards. Just 127 President’s Scholars were selected based on academic achievement, service and leadership, as well as “the potential to affect positive change and leadership in both the academic and co-curricular life of PLU,” university representatives said.

This year’s President’s Scholarship recipients scored on average a 1335 SAT test score, 29 ACT test score and have a 3.98 grade-point-average.

These top students have been invited to interview on the PLU campus in February to compete for the next level of PLU Presidential Scholarships — one of 10, $31,000-per-year Harstad Founder’s Scholarships or one of five full-tuition Regents’ Scholarships.

Pacific Lutheran University is a private liberal arts university in Tacoma.